I Love This Country

Whenever I say I love my country, most folks automatically assume I’m being sarcastic. But trust me that’s not the case. Ok, in most instances. I do love this country. I love the national mix of humanity, the cultures, the linguistics and all that including the stereotypes. We are one cool and truly blessed country. Before you exclaim hallelujah, that doesn’t mean we are the second best thing after Adam’s garden.  We got issues that feel like a stake right through the heart.

A few years ago we had a botched up election and we butchered each other like the primitive buffoons that our politicians make us to be. Of course if you’re reading this I didn’t get the chance to butcher you and neither did you get to have a go at my throat. But in a way or another, seeing the country in smoke sure touched our rawest nerves. Children burning in church, reprisal attacks equally gruesome on completely innocent people, property destroyed and all that shit almost ground this country to a halt. The fuckery made me cry. You cried. We all cried.

A few months to the next elections, we are repeating the same shit that led to the bloodbath in 2007-08.  Politicians are making inflammatory remarks and impunity seems to be at an all-time high. And the opinions polls are already telling us that it is either this one thief, or that other one. So the gullible voters that we are, we expect who the mass media tells us will win to win and if s/he doesn’t, we are gonna raise hell. Before I get started on these pollsters and their media, I really would love to know who pays the piper to have the tunes they churn out played.

Not to forget we now have even more channels to propagate our primitiveness as more and more people embrace the social media. When Kenyans are not tweefing, they are on some shitty trending topic or busy stereotyping people from other regions or even making incendiary comments in the name of ‘it’s never too serious.’ In 2007-08 we might say we never knew what hit us till it was too late, but this time round we have the blame squarely on our collective shoulders as a nation. Some shit about once bitten…

iDread here can only hope that the great mercies of His Imperial Majesty will be with us and sense will prevail and we’ll avoid the mistakes of the past. Reason; because I LOVE MY COUNTRY!!

Rastafari Bless!